It was a last minute decision that worked out in the end. We live 40 minutes from Rutgers (and a very easy train ride), she didn’t have a car, her boyfriend was a pharmaceutical program in Boston, she’s a very smart girl but with zero sense of direction and didn’t realize UMASS Amherst wasn’t close to Boston (she’s a cpa now but was only applying to small privates in Boston, we didn’t realize until the acceptances started rolling in). She broke up with her boyfriend her sophomore year of college anyway.